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X, ou le divin dans la poesie de Victor Hugo a partir de l'exil.(Review)(Brief Article)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20010701
Author:Cox, Fiona

X, ou le divin dans la poesie de Victor Hugo a partir de l'exil. By CLAUDE RETAT. Paris: CNRS. 1999. 222 pp.

Claude Retat's project in this book is to define the divine in Hugo's oeuvre. She argues that the divine is both perceived and expressed by Hugo as a movement of expansive energy, and that the personal and geographical conditions of his exile made him more receptive to this movement. The site of this symbiotic exchange is Hugo's writing, where he symbolizes the phenomenon as X. The difficulty of Retat's project is her choice of so amorphous a concept to underpin her ...

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